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Farshadi | Desai | Sabau | Bertsch | Petrouchtchak | Bashi

Capstone Project | ENSC 440/305W

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Outline Team Roles

Goals

Background

Competitors

System Overview

Motivation

Main Features

Project Schedule

Delays

Budget/Finances

Reliability & Sustainability

Conclusion

Learning Outcomes

Future Endavours

Acknowledgments

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Farshad Farshadi Chief Executive Officer

Chinmay Desai Chief Operations Officer

Kevin Sabau Chief Technology Officer

Paniz Bertsch Chief Controls Officer

Juri Petrouchtchak Chief Financial Officer

Amir Bashi VP Manufacturing

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Farshad Farshadi Software Co-Head (Optical Character Recognition)

Chinmay Desai Documentation & Hardware Co-Head

Kevin Sabau Hardware Co-Head

Paniz Bertsch Software Co-Head (Radio Frequency Identification)

Juri Petrouchtchak Marketing & Finance

Amir Bashi Production & Testing

Team Roles

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Create a unit that would expedite parts

distribution for lab courses

Allow the system the to record various

personnel information

Unit should be used as an attendance

tracking system for school & businesses

Create a reliable unit that can be used over

and over again without failure

All of this should be done via a unit that’s

cost effective & has a user friendly interface

Goals

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Parts distribution for lab courses can take up

to several days & is an inefficient system

Even manually taking attendance for

courses/business meetings is inefficient

There needs to be a faster way of doing all

this without overcomplicating the new

system

Background

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Handheld barcode scanner can cost

anywhere from $100 – $600 and even up to

few thousand dollars

Closest Competitor

Honeywell $506.63 Wasp WLS 9600 $417.19 IDVisor 310 $1,395

Prices taken from www.staples.ca

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Tricom Card Technologies & Treoscope

development of age and identity verification

systems

Limited capabilities to barcode scans only,

and software provides limited interface

options

Other Competitor

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Similar products are very expensive & have a

steep learning curve in terms of software

Competitors’ products only read the

barcode, but what if an ID doesn’t have one?

Need a simple user friendly design that’s cost

effective

Use this device here in Lab 1 to make Fred’s

life a little easier

Motivation

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Device will read barcode, identification

number, and the RFID value

It will also take a picture of the user and store

it in the database to prevent anyone else

using their card

This system has four main stages: Detection,

Authentication, Distribution, & Collection

Main Features

Detection Authentication Distribution Collection

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Stage One: Detection

User is given an identification card with an RFID

tag embedded and then the card is read by

the unit

Stage Two: Authentication

The unit will read the RFID/barcode/ID number

and match it with that in the database

Stage Three: Distribution

Allows the operator to efficiently distribute any

tools or parts through a friendly user interface

Stage Four: Collection

Data collected will be stored as a readable file

System Overview

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System Overview

RFID Reader

OCR Scanner

Barcode

Scanner

Microcontroller

Image

Processing

ID Extractor

Data Indexing

PHP

Web Server

C/C++ Libraries

C/C++ Libraries

Data Base

Input Data Processing Data Manipulation

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Project Schedule

Research

Proposal

Purchase Parts

Design & Build

Functional Specification

Oral Progress Report

Design Specification

Integration & Debugging

Written Progress Report

Final Modifications

Presentation / Demo

Post Mortem

Journal Documentation

December September October November 2015

Projected Timeline

Actual Timeline

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Parts often did not work properly

Issues with the 3D printing

Other commitments (Midterms/Finals)

Causes for Delay

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Our principal investors were Miller Instruments

who expressed an interest in our design early on

Dr. Ash Parameswaran was kind enough to let

us use his 3D printer, thus cutting our printing

cost

With help from both of them, we were able to

complete our product while staying under

budget

The surplus was used on food/drinks for this

presentation

Budget

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Stuff

Budget

Item Name Project Costs Actual Costs Difference

RFID Reader Base/Chip

(13.56 MHz)

$25 $4 x 3 - $13

Additional RFID Tags (~5) $3 / each $3 - $12

Arduino Nano $45 $10 x 3 - $15

Electrical components $10 $12 +$2

Housing Unit $25 $9 x 4 +$11

Contingency (15%) $18 $20 +$2

Grand Total $138 $113 for 4 units - $25

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Failure testing must be performed to ensure a safe

& dependable unit

Load versus resistance will be analyzed to produce

a unit that has less than 0.1 probability of failure

Reliability

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Environmental sustainability is an issue we take very

seriously & that is reflected in our design

Using a 3D printer to house all our electrical &

hardware components

Thermoplastic polymer material used by the printer

can be re-used after a printing

Sustainability

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Create an Android App that will replace the

need for the for the physical unit

New generation Android phones have built

in RFID reader, use that to read the cards

Can be even more portable & eliminates the

need for a computer

Order all material in bulk & acquire venture

or angel capital from interested parties

Future Endeavours

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Stuff here

Business Case

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Twas the night before

Capstone Demo Eve

+ = &

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Some work was done!

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Testing in Lab 1

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We offer a cost effective solution to

attendance tracking & personnel

documentation

Our system can read ID, barcode, & RFID, as

well as take & record the user’s picture

We plan on developing the accompanying

app in January to assist with in-class exams

All this will be done via user friendly interface

while keeping the cost at a minimum

Summary

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Dr. Andrew Rawicz & Mr. Steve Whitmore

All of the 440 TA’s (Lukas, Jamal, Shaun, & Masha)

Our friends & family for their endless support

Dr. Wang from Lee’s Electronics

Our sincere thanks to Dr. Ash Parameswaran

Acknowledgments

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Thank you very much for your time today &

for a wonderful semester

At this time we would like to open the floor

for any questions

Questions

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